This month we welcome Juergen Sauermann as the author and maintainer of
the new GNU APL package, a full APL interpreter, and Brian Tiffin, Simon
Sobisch, and Bernard Giroud as the maintainers of the new GNU Cobol
package.

Also welcome to Ludovic Courtes as the new maintainer of DMD, in
addition to his existing work on many other packages, notably Guile (the
GNU extension language) and GUIX (a functional package manager for GNU).
Although technically still an alpha release, GUIX 0.4 was released as
part of the GNU 30th birthday celebration,
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/. A new version of GNU HURD (the GNU
kernel) and related packages was also released for the celebration,
https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/.